Henry Ford

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

I believe that the average man wants to work.

To teach that a man is a man because he is a Jew or a Gentile, a black or a white, is to teach falsehood.

The only thing that is important is the work that is done.

Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.

The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way.

My success, I attribute to this one rule: I have never given or taken an excuse.

Profit is a necessity. It is the lifeblood of industry.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. It is the customer who pays the wages.

There can be no great success without great resistance.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

To see a thing is to understand it. To understand a thing is to love it.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip in your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.